The Magic Muscle Building Formula

There is no secret to how muscle is built.

To build a muscle you have to push it a little bit farther than it has been pushed before which will cause tiny microscopic tears in the muscle tissue.

At this point your body will go to work repairing the damaged tissue and your part is to simply provide the muscle with the proper nutrients and adequate rest the body needs to do its job.

Several days later if the PUSH / NUTRIENTS / REST formula is followed, you will emerge with a slightly bigger and stronger muscle.

Every month the news stands are loaded with health and fitness magazines that claim to have the latest and greatest programs for building this or shrinking that but in reality it all boils down to effective implementation of:

• Pushing the muscle harder than it is accustomed to working
• Consuming the proper nutrients
• Getting adequate rest and recuperation
  

Repeat this formula over and over until you have built the muscle you want.

If you are not building muscle then you are not effectively implementing one or more components of the Magic Muscle Building Formula.

From spending the better part of two decades in the gym, I can say that most folks fail to push their muscles hard enough to initiate the growth process.

Time and time again I see it.

Guys at the gym chatting with their friends, talking on the phone and in between it all going through the motions of lifting the weight so they can justify the trip to the gym.

And then they wonder why they don't build muscle.

If you go to the gym and lift the same weight you did last month with the same intensity you did last month, your body is going to look like it did last month.

To get a killer muscle building workout you need three ingredients;

• Visualization
• Focus
• Intensity

Wouldn't it be great if there was a tool you could use that could easily create the three ingredients you need for your killer workout?

You are in luck my friend because there is such a tool and you can use it to optimize your health and fitness and transform your body into a muscle god if you choose to.


In fact thought is the most powerful creation tool in the entire universe!

Look around your room right now and think about it.

Everything you see around you did not exist until someone THOUGHT about the possibility of CREATING it.

The computer

The desk

The keyboard

The chair

Try to look around the room and find anything that was not created from thought.

Think about all of the thought that went into building the processor that is powering your computer right now.

Thought is an absolute prerequisite in the creation of anything.

It is the perfect tool for creating the body you desire!!

Thoughts have varying degrees of power.

One of the 50,000 or so random thoughts that float through your consciousness everyday may have very low energy and very little collective power.

A repetitive thought combined with emotion ( energy in motion ) is like like a seed that has the potential to grow into a physical equivalent of the thought.

A repetitive thought combined with emotion, faith and persistence is the creative force of the universe.

Think about this...

Your body today is a result of all of your thoughts in the past about your body.

Your body a year from now will be the result of your thoughts every day up to that point.

If you want a hot ripped muscled body six months from now and you do not have one today, you have got to change your thinking or you will end up with the same body six months from now that you have today.

If you continue to think like you've always thought you will continue to get what you've always got.

If you want to look like a body builder, THINK like a body builder.

If you want to look like a health and fitness model, THINK like a fitness model.

OK let's get down to business.

Step ONE - Visualization

The first thought tool we are going to use for our killer mind-blowing muscle building workout is visualization and this part of your workout starts BEFORE you even set foot in the gym.

Visualization is one of if not the most important steps for manifesting your desires.

Start collecting pictures of physiques similar to what you want your body to look like.

Just before your workout look at the picture of the body and more specifically the body part you intend to workout.

Lately I've been working on growing my shoulders so I have a pictures of a guys with shoulders just like the ones I want mine to grow into so I look at the pictures and visualize mine looking that way.

Spend about 5 minutes visualizing the body part(s) you are about to workout.

Can you close your eyes and see in vivid detail the body part you are about to workout?

Good let's keep going.

Step TWO - Focus

Be assured that when body builders go to the gym, they are on a mission.

To thoroughly and completely stress the muscles they are working enough to cause breakdown and then growth of the muscle fibers.

If you want to grow muscle this has got to be your mission in the gym as well.

Random thoughts although weak, are still enough to break your focus and affect your workout.

If you've ever been in the middle of a heavy set and all of the sudden some random off-the-wall thought creeps into your head and you immediately loose concentration and practically drop the weights, then you know what I'm talking about.

Your objective is to focus on pushing yourself just a little bit further than ever before because this is how muscle fibers breakdown at which point re-growth occurs.

Remember if you simply lift the same weight as you did last workout, your muscles are going to remain the same size.

Close your eyes and visualize the picture from step one. Feel your muscles expanding to the size of the guys (or gals) muscles in your picture.

Imagine that the body in the picture is your body. Because it is your body you are able to lift more weight than normal.

Visualizing this desired end result is a very powerful tool.

Step THREE - Intensity

You're at the gym, you're focused on your workout and you have a clear vision of what your body is going to look like in your head.

Now it's time to supercharge your workout.

How do we do this?

With words of course!!

Think of words as symbols we use to describe things to ourselves and others.

For the purposes of this article think about how certain words and word combinations create specific feelings within you.

Words have a powerful drug-like effect on your body and if used properly can be a powerful tool in developing the body of your dreams.

We associate emotions and feeling with words. For example if someone approaches you in a club and says "You are hot," that combination of words will probably cause good feelings to come over you because you probably associate the word "hot" as something that is desirable.

If someone says "I love you" the feeling you will experience is much different than if they say "I hate you."

The last step in creating our killer mind-blowing muscle building workout is for you to choose some INTENSE and POWERFUL words or combination of words you can say to yourself while you are working out.

For example here are mine.

INTENSE / POWERFUL - I always try to describe my workouts as intense and powerful and workout accordingly.

PUMPS - This is a word I use to envision my muscles, usually my legs when doing squats, as powerful non-tiring mechanical pumps.

MACHINE - I use "I'm and machine" fairly often in my workouts because to me a machine does not get tired it just keeps going, feeling no pain.

FIERCE MUSCLE BUILDING MACHINE - A phrase I use to describe myself while working out.

KEEP GOING - This is a phrase I use quite often to keep me moving with intensity and power to the next exercise.

Find words that represent intensity and power within you start using these words to describe your workouts.

This could also be the name of someone you look up to and envision as as INTENSE and POWERFUL person.


In summary

1) Your workout should start before you hit the gym. Find a picture of a body just like the one you desire and visualize it for several minutes before you hit the gym. Make sure the picture is clear enough in your head so you can see it is vivid detail when you are working out.

2) Focus on your workout. All your thoughts should be on your muscles and how your body is growing into the same as the one in your visualizations. Feel your muscle expand and grow. Push a little harder than ever before so your body will grow that much faster into the one you desire into the picture.

3) Create a powerful and intense workout by using words that create those feelings within you.

Putting it together...

You drive to the gym creating the experience you are about to have with with powerful and intense words and phrases.

You can vividly see the body you are working to create.

At the gym you are on a mission. You power through your sets with intensity pushing farther than ever before keeping focused on your expanding muscles. Muscles that are growing rapidly to form the body you hold in your vision.

You constantly repeat your workout words for continued power and intensity.

When you can't do one more rep...

...visualize your new body and ask yourself how bad you want it and then do TWO more reps!!

May you reach your health and fitness goals and may all your workouts be mind-blowing and muscle building,

Michael :o)